Students in the rural Hector School District can now do more than stare out of the window during the two or more hours they spend on the school bus each day.
The Pope County district has partnered with Vanderbilt University’s Aspirnaut Program to provide math and science technology programming on one of the school’s 10 buses. The bus has five ceiling-mounted screens that play educational material for kindergarteners through high schoolers.
The university says they believe the program is the first of its kind.
The high-tech bus has been in use for about a month, and the school’s already noticed one big change: It’s a lot quieter. Each seat is equipped with headphones, and the school says there’ve been no discipline write-ups on that bus since the programming was introduced.
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